Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

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A good would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

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Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.

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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

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A book is a gift you can open again and again.

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Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.

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I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.

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I can survive well enough on my own – if given the proper reading material.

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To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

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If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.

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